3.The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)"... plotless and characterless but, also, unfinished, need not be fatal. It has
hills and vales and other properties of romanticism & la Rousseau; ..."

4.The Contemporary Review (1871)"and scenic display, or else upon burlesques, generally of a plotless and unmeaning
kind, or chiefly meaning an idolatry of the 0iX<«'0ts rather than ..."